Date and acquaintance rape: Development and validation of a set of scales

Violence Against Woman

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 46-58

  Walsh, Joan F ^b   DeVellis, Brenda M ^a   DeVellis, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; CRIME; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES; METHODOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; PSYCHOLOGY; RAPE; RESEARCH; SCHOOL; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STUDENT; STUDENTS--WOMEN; TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; CRIME; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EDUCATION; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGICAL STUDIES; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; RAPE; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; STUDENTS--WOMEN; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES; WOMEN;

AMERICAS; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; CRIME; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EDUCATION; METHODS; NORTH AMERICA; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; RAPE; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; STUDENTS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES; WOMEN;

EID: 0031061124     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801297003001004     Document Type: Article

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